Open ocean zooplankton often have been viewed as slowly evolving species that have
limited capacity to respond adaptively to changing ocean conditions. Hence, attention has …

Understanding the hierarchy of populations from the scale of metapopulations to
mesopopulations and member local populations is fundamental to understanding the …

The population structure of the highly mobile marine mammal, the harbor porpoise
(Phocoena phocoena), in the Atlantic shelf waters follows a pattern of significant isolation-by …

A bloom of an unknown semaestome jellyfish species was recorded in the North Adriatic
Sea from September 2013 to early 2014. Morphological analysis of several specimens …

Reports of nuisance jellyfish blooms have increased worldwide during the last half-century,
but the possible causes remain unclear. A persistent difficulty lies in identifying whether …

One of the obstacles to detecting regional trends in jellyfish populations is the lack of a
defined baseline. In the Adriatic Sea, the jellyfish fauna (Scyphozoa and Ctenophora) is …

Biological invasions of jellyfish critically affect ecosystems and ecosystem services, yet their
complex life cycle makes tracking their origins and dispersal vectors a challenging task …

Mass occurrences of scypozoan medusae have become increasingly common in recent
decades in European seas, including species in the genera Aurelia and Rhizostoma. We …

Jellyfish blooms are generally attributed to a biological response to the environment,
neglecting the role of transport patterns in redistributing existing populations. Here, we use …

Nowadays scyphomedusae have earned the reputation of sentinels of ecological
disturbance, due to periodical blooms and causality with anthropogenic mediated factors (eg …